The Henson Journals

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Saturday, April 22nd, 1922.

A most glorious spring morning. William started for Birmingham about 8.45 a.m. We exchanged farewells from my bedroom window.

Wylands is a pleasant house, pleasantly placed on the bank of the Wye. After breakfast I established myself in the smoking room, & wrote to Ella , Lady Oman, the Dean of York and Mr Haslewood. Then I joined Mrs Clayton & Bryan for lunch, and a stroll in the garden. We drove to Ross, where I took the train to Gloucester. Gee met me at the station. Caröe was on the platform, about to proceed to London.

At 6 p.m. the Ordination Candidate, Hill, came to see me at the Deanery. I questioned him about Jewel's "Apology", which was the Anglican standard he had selected, & had some talk with him. He impressed me very well.

There was a pleasant party at dinner. I had beside me a sister of Huxley, whom I found very interesting. There was a local baronet, a soldier, who had command during the war in Egypt and Gallipoli, who spoke very nicely about the chaplains. Their horsemanship appears to have been their weakest point. An old lady, Mrs Cutter, said that she was a relation of the Thurlows, & apparently connected with half the aristocracy! Gee & I had some intimate conversation before we finally decided to go to bed!

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